Thursday 23 October 2008

Jumping for joy

Three members of Capita Symonds’ Blackburn office have raised more than £1,400 for Macmillan Cancer Support with a sponsored skydive.

Andy Archer, Dave Richardson and Martin Haydock completed the 14,000 ft dive near Lancaster.

Well done boys!

See how they got on:


Fish out of troubled water


Capita Symonds Aquatic Resource Management (ARM) team have finished work on a project to repair one of Mid Wales’ most important tourist attractions.

The team, led by Project Manager Will Kennedy, provided preliminary design, project specification, and contractual services as part of the programme to restore the ecological balance of the water at Llandrindod Lake in Powys.

The high profile project, carried out on behalf of Powys County Council (PCC), was a result of a major ecological incident in 2006 which resulted in the death of thousands of fish.

As part of the work Capita Symonds undertook the preliminary design of major embankment enhancements utilising materials dredged from the lake, as well as planting a variety of native marginal plant species (not to mention liaising with multiple stakeholders to ensure that the work met the requirements of all parties). The team also assisted with the procurement of a specialist contractor in line with the constrained budget of the council.

Find out more about our Aquatic Resource Management Team

See what we did in the video:


Charity drive

Another story from Capita's 'Charity Week' activities.......

Capita Symonds and Capita Bobrowski managed to raise a total of £6,300 for Macmillan Cancer Support by holding a client drinks reception, including scalextric competition.

Thanks go to Cordek, Philips Lighting, Flaktwoods and Condek for sponsoring the F1 scalextric cars (this alone raised £1,000 for the charity) and to everyone for their kind support and donations.


Capita Symonds & ICE Safety Lecture 08

The 17th annual Capita Symonds & ICE Safety Lecture lecture took place yesterday (22nd October) in London

This year's guest speaker was Chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority, John Armitt. John presented his paper entitled "Combining Safety, Health and Environment - have we succeeded?"

Find out more about the lecture and view the transcript

NB: Further write-ups to follow.